W.H. Westman

A submission to the IWW’s internal General Organization Bulletin (May 1939) by then General Secretary-Treasurer W.H. Westman arguing against the union signing collective bargaining agreements. The context of this submission is a broader debate on collective bargaining agreements in the IWW. This debate heats up in the wake of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 which provided a more standardized system of labor…